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Published on 30.03.2026
TLDR: If a variable never mutates, calling it a variable is a lie your codebase tells to every future reader. Maxi Contieri argues that immutability should be declared explicitly, and your tooling should enforce it.
Refactoring 008 - Variables That Never Change Should Be Constants
TLDR: Nicolas Fränkel walks through using Pi-hole as a DNS sinkhole behind a Tailscale VPN, giving you network-level ad and tracker blocking without installing anything on individual devices. Small setup effort, meaningful privacy gain.
How to Integrate Pi-hole With Tailscale to Protect Your Privacy
TLDR: As block rewards decrease over time through halving schedules and energy costs remain high, mining can become economically unviable for many participants. This piece from the Obyte team explores how different crypto networks are designed to handle — or fail to handle — that scenario.
What Happens to Crypto When No One Can Afford to Mine?
TLDR: RAG pipelines retrieve from a fixed document corpus. Market-aware AI agents need live, current data. Federico Trotta introduces the concept of "instant knowledge acquisition" — letting agents scrape and reason over real-time web content rather than pre-indexed embeddings.
From RAG to Instant Knowledge Acquisition: Giving Market-aware Agents Access to the Live Market
TLDR: AssemblyAI demonstrates building a real-time transcription pipeline for doctor-patient conversations that feeds into an LLM for clinical note generation. The combination of speech-to-text streaming and language model analysis is positioned as a documentation efficiency tool for healthcare providers.
Build a real-time medical transcription analysis app with AssemblyAI and LLM Gateway
TLDR: Pavel M continues his series for non-technical founders using AI coding tools, this time covering how to go from an initial prompt and idea to a working MVP. The focus is practical: GitHub setup, stack selection with AI assistance, and the discipline of iterating through Cursor.
Cursor Your Dream, Part 2: How to Move From First Prompt to First Working App